What Would Paul Allen Do With Spectrum? Who Knows! — Among the applicants to bid in next month's FCC wireless spectrum auction: Vulcan Spectrum LLC, a firm controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen already owns some 700 megahertz spectrum — the same flavor being auctioned off next year — in Washington and Oregon.

Apple and Google, telecom's new stars — It was Apple and Google—not the traditional phone companies AT&T and Verizon Communications—that took center stage in the telephony market in 2007. — In January, Apple announced the iPhone and named AT&T its exclusive carrier in the U.S. For almost six months …

The Pirate Bay: Torrents and Peers Double in 2007 — The Pirate Bay now tracks nearly 1 million torrents and over 8 million peers at any given point in time. This is quite a change compared to last year, and there is no sign that this trend will stop anytime soon. — December 2006

IceRocket Relaunch? — I'm sure I'm very late in noticing this, but just after I saw Technorati's relaunch as a memetracker, I noticed that IceRocket is starting to look different, with a new (to me) looking front page, ranked video, movies and news. According to Compete …

Russia launches final satellites for its own GPS — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS. — The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected …

Worker runs up £27k mobile bill — EXCLUSIVE: Factory worker runs up £27,000 mobile bill in a month — It's good to talk... unless you fail to read the smallprint on your new mobile phone contract and end up with a bill for £27,322. — Ian Simpson, 29 …

CTO Session: Nortel's Roese Speaks Out — Chief technology officers must both imagine the future—then make it happen. This is the first in a series of Q&As about the future of industry with pivotal chief technology officers. — John J. Roese has been a key part of the reinvention …

A focused family business — Picture this: an online photo-sharing site with a loyal customer base and no corporate ties run by a close-knit clan out of Silicon Valley. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Ever the proud father, Chris MacAskill screens 20-year-old home movies of his sons …

Send email attachments up to 5GB with AOL's Xdrive — While most web-based email services have file attachment size limits, there are plenty of ways around those limitations. MailBigFile, YouSendIt, Driveway, and other services all let you “park” large files temporarily online and send …